Creativity has much to do with...

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

So happy just to be alive,

So happy just to be alive,
Underneath the sky of blue,
On this new morning, new morning,
On this new morning with you.

Bob Dylan 03.03.2018 03:03:03 758 quotes

People are going to say, 'Well...

People are going to say, 'Well, it's not very truthful.' But a songwriter doesn't care about what's truthful. What he cares about is what should've happened, what could've happened. That's its own kind of truth. It's like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

Shakespeare's last play was ca...

Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles,

You had no faith to lose and y...

You had no faith to lose and you know it.

Everything passes, Everything ...

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

I was headed for the fantastic...

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

Peace is the time it takes to ...

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

I believe that instinct is wha...

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

Art is the perpetual motion of...

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

I was sick of the way my lyric...

I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.

People call you this or that. ...

People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

I'm not going to read any of t...

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that....

Half of the people can be part...

Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.

You get older. You start havin...

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.

Steal a little, and they put y...

Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.

Businessmen, they drink my win...

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth.
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

How many deaths will it take '...

How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?

Let me drink from the waters w...

Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.

The picture you have in your m...

The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.